Posted on 12/15/2007 7:45:20 PM PST by LdSentinal
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Globe's editorial board has endorsed Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain ahead of the New Hampshire presidential primary and the Iowa caucus, the newspaper reported Saturday.
The board noted that Obama fulfills America's need for "a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world," and that McCain "has done more than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems facing the United States," the newspaper reported on its Web site.
The endorsements followed in-depth interviews with the presidential contenders.
The board says Obama's diverse and international life experience helped the Illinois Democrat develop a unique perspective of the world.
"The most sobering challenges that face this country — terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics — are global," the board said in early excerpts of its endorsement. "America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities. Barack Obama has this understanding at his core."
Obama's relative lack of Washington experience may enable him to explore creative solutions to national problems, according to the endorsement.
"It is true that all the other Democratic contenders have more conventional resumes, and have spent more time in Washington," the board wrote. "But that exposure has tended to give them a sense of government's constraints. Obama is more open to its possibilities."
The newspaper's editorial board praised McCain as a straight talker whose honesty, despite the political cost, might help a polarized nation. The board described the Arizona Republican as a possible antidote to the "toxic political approach" of the last two presidential elections.
"McCain's views differ from those of this editorial page in a variety of ways. Yet McCain's honesty has served him well," the board wrote. "As a lawmaker and as a candidate, he has done more than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems facing the United States. He deserves the opportunity to represent his party in November's election."
The Globe also endorsed McCain before the New Hampshire primary in 2000.
the kiss of death for the two senators.
John Who?
What a joke.
Heaven help anyone within Hillary’s throwing range.
Ouch. Hillary b**ch-slapped by the Globe.
Harpy’s not Happy she needs Huma the Hamas.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Just what I want: a man who has a vision for how government has possibilities to grow even bigger and more intrusive than what it is today.
Yippee!
Uh-oh. How long before The Globe gets a telephone call from Don Clinton Corleone?
^__^
Anything that hurts Her Royal Lowness is a good thing. Thank You Boston Globe.
Handy translation guide:
transcend partisanship = join with the Democrats on various issues
promote an honest discussion = approvingly acknowledge the Dem position, or at least publicly criticize the GOP position.
Des Moines Register is backing Clinton and McCain per Drudge.
Same ticket???
So they have endorsed a liberal....and a liberal.
Those are quite good translations.
By that standard Danny Bonaduce is qualified.
NObomba’s “diverse and international life experience helped the Illinois Democrat develop a unique perspective of the world”
Good Lord, what a load of crap. Just because the guy’s biracial doesn’t add doodly-squat to his (in)competence, nor his living in different places. Who cares abut that in the big picture of world politics and all that’s at stake.
Where does the MSM get these clowns?
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